by Bruce Turkel | Aug 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
AdAge reported that Toyota is thinking of firing its ad agencies and doing everything in-house. My friend Andrew Jaffee has some interesting comments: Toyota spends $900 million in measured media in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen. That means they’re...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 23, 2007 | Branding
BrandChannel.com, Interbrand’s online brand exchange released their survey of the world’s top brands. The company stressed that this list is not a record of the world’s best-known brands (such as Coca-Cola). Instead, the BBC News says Interbrand asked consumers “what...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2007 | Branding
There’s no doubt that brands are badges, telling everyone who we are and how we want to present ourselves to the world. But how far does this go? A recent article in the New York Times suggests that brand-badge symbolism has become so powerful that certain cars...